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160 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
t i v e l y short time, it is able to move about and soon becomes
quite active. Suckling is supposed to continue for two or
three months. When i n good condition and stalked, the
flesh of the moose is excellent eating, and, on the whole,
more tender and luscious than the venison of the red deer
or either species of c a r i b o u ; but animals k i l l e d after a long
chase on snow, or d u r i n g or after the r u t t i n g season are
far f r om palatable, owing to a strong and very rank flavour
then acquired. The skins are dressed b y native women and the
r e s u l t i n g smoked leather is made into tents or lodges, moccasins,
tunics, shirts, and trousers for winter and summer use
by the resident population of the interior. Some skins are
also cut up for pack cords and others turned into parchment
for the requirements of the Hudson's B a y Company and
others. Hunters assert that hermaphrodites and barren
females are sometimes met with, and that these imperfect
examples almost i n v a r i a b l y a t t a in a larger size and heavier
weight than their f e r t i l e k i n d r e d . Chief Trader H . J . M o -
berly, an experienced officer, hunter, and woodsman, confirms
the t r u t h of this statement f r om his own personal observat
i o n . In his " North- West Passage," Doctor A r m s t r o n g mentions
that Capt. S i r Robert M c C l u r e , one of a small party
of explorers sent out i n the spring of 1851 from Her
Majesty's E r a n k l i n Search- expedition ship Investigator, then
w i n t e r i n g i n P r i n c e o f Wales S t r a i t , said that he saw three
animals w h i c h he firmly believed to be moose i n about l a t i tude
71° north and longitude 114° west. I t h i n k this is the
first and only record of this animal h a v i n g been met w i t h on
the lands l y i n g to the north of the A m e r i c a n continent.
C h i e f Trader James Lockhart has recorded that " the
moose down at P e e l R i v e r and F o r t Y u k o n are much larger
than up this way [ Great Slave L a k e and Fort Simpson].
There I have known two cases of extraordinary moose havi
n g been k i l l e d [ probably one or both were obtained at P e el
R i v e r ] , the meat alone of each of them weighing over 1,000
pounds. The Loucheux have a superstition that the I n d i an
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| OCR | 160 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN t i v e l y short time, it is able to move about and soon becomes quite active. Suckling is supposed to continue for two or three months. When i n good condition and stalked, the flesh of the moose is excellent eating, and, on the whole, more tender and luscious than the venison of the red deer or either species of c a r i b o u ; but animals k i l l e d after a long chase on snow, or d u r i n g or after the r u t t i n g season are far f r om palatable, owing to a strong and very rank flavour then acquired. The skins are dressed b y native women and the r e s u l t i n g smoked leather is made into tents or lodges, moccasins, tunics, shirts, and trousers for winter and summer use by the resident population of the interior. Some skins are also cut up for pack cords and others turned into parchment for the requirements of the Hudson's B a y Company and others. Hunters assert that hermaphrodites and barren females are sometimes met with, and that these imperfect examples almost i n v a r i a b l y a t t a in a larger size and heavier weight than their f e r t i l e k i n d r e d . Chief Trader H . J . M o - berly, an experienced officer, hunter, and woodsman, confirms the t r u t h of this statement f r om his own personal observat i o n . In his " North- West Passage," Doctor A r m s t r o n g mentions that Capt. S i r Robert M c C l u r e , one of a small party of explorers sent out i n the spring of 1851 from Her Majesty's E r a n k l i n Search- expedition ship Investigator, then w i n t e r i n g i n P r i n c e o f Wales S t r a i t , said that he saw three animals w h i c h he firmly believed to be moose i n about l a t i tude 71° north and longitude 114° west. I t h i n k this is the first and only record of this animal h a v i n g been met w i t h on the lands l y i n g to the north of the A m e r i c a n continent. C h i e f Trader James Lockhart has recorded that " the moose down at P e e l R i v e r and F o r t Y u k o n are much larger than up this way [ Great Slave L a k e and Fort Simpson]. There I have known two cases of extraordinary moose havi n g been k i l l e d [ probably one or both were obtained at P e el R i v e r ] , the meat alone of each of them weighing over 1,000 pounds. The Loucheux have a superstition that the I n d i an |
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